TeMPOraL

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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Is there even a working definition of what a "filter" is in Instagram, or mobile photo editors targetting social media users (which is approximately all of the mobile photo editors), beyond "a script that fucks up your photo
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Yes, but that's super annoying and at that point graduates to being a shitty workaround.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
In practice, always. It's similar to the claim that during the cold war, US basically controlled USSR economy, and vice versa, and that US won because USSR economy just couldn't keep up. On smaller scale, this is the (in)famous &q
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Why would encouraging non-insider training be desirable in the first place, other than to create a more high-status form of gambling, with higher spouse acceptance factor than smoke-filled room poker games? People with no inside knowledge[0
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
> full screen modals Thanks. I never imagined this is a thing, it's an useful addition to my mental model of software components, to explain why back button on web behaves in weird ways for some apps. But it sure does sound like a
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
State management, URL fragment management, reimplementing basic controls... One that I hate the most is that they first reimplement tabular display with a soup of divs, then because this is slow as a dog, they implement virtualized display,
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
I do this too. The pattern probably dates back to first Unix pagers, or perhaps to the paper era.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
> It's also a great way to store state so that a user may bookmark or link something directly. Can you unpack this please? AFAIK history stack is not preserved in the URL, therefore it cannot be preserved in a bookmark or a shared
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
It's also not a very effective workaround, because some of the websites in question end up spamming multiple instances of their home page in the history stack.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Old Reddit doesn't do this, it's the "new" one that pretends to be an app, that does it and host of other stupid/user-hostile shit.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Desktop had this solved, on Windows there was and remains a distinction between "back" (history) and "up" (navigation). Browsers actually used to have hierarchical navigation support, with buttons and all, back in the ag
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
It's what many software companies dream of and aim for . But the same argument works with 10k users, or even 1k users.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
If the tool is reliable, it's a win. Saved brain power doesn't disappear, it can be applied elsewhere. If the tool is powerful enough to do a better job than our brains would, it's a big win. In fact, we built the entire tech
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
> A consumer will pay $10/mo and > ask for the moon. Threaten to leave. That's normal business thing. What significantly helps reducing this, though, is the business is not promising the stars and engaging in all kinds o
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
> Better is 'longer lasting and less disposable.' I'd generally agree, but there are always caveats. See e.g. glass vs. plastic bottles - glass looks like strictly superior solution environmentally, until you consider ho
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
> wind-resistant clothing Better autocomplete/autocorrect, "circle on screen" -> OCR anywhere, high-quality automated background removal[0]. > fireproof materials No big examples to point at now, except maybe wha
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
It does, probabilistically. For any given customer C, the expected value EV(C) is... not much. By starting an opt-out process, a customer Co is revealed to have EV(Co) = 0, which is less than not much.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Define better. Fast fashion sucks, but hand-spun cotton won't give you Kevlar or modern wind-resistant clothing or fireproof materials for your furniture or... <insert half thousand different things adjacent to modern textile produc
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
We already cram several orders of magnitude more flash storage into phone than RAM (e.g. my phone has 16 GB RAM but 1 TB storage); even now, with some smart coding, if you don't need all that data at the same time for random access a
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
These bytes are human lives. The bytes and the CPU cycles translate to software that takes longer to run, that is more frustrating, that makes people accomplish less in longer time than they could, or should. Take too much, and you prevent
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
I don't have much data to go on (in accordance with what 'jerf wrote), however I offer a high-level, abstract perspective. The ideal set of outcomes exist as a tiny subspace of a high-dimensional space of possible solutions. Almos
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
I doubt it nets positive or even cancels out the damage, but if we're taking a fuller picture, then we shouldn't also assume Altman / other AI company CEOs are "taking actions to harm the world in grievous ways" for
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
I've been wondering this too. As I understand it, BLIK codes are generated on the back-end, so I imagine they have some clever anti-collision measures in place. What I know is: - The TTL of the code is variable; on some days I've
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
> Is this the flow for online payments as well, or only for in-person payments? On-line, too. Or should I say, first, because AFAIK on-line came first. I've been using it for years as my default on-line payment method where availa
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
The problem is that people have a million stories to explain the observed actions, most of those stories are bullshit, and people repeating them know fuck all about the decision-space in which these actions were chosen and taken.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Yes, but in the opposite way to what you think. Do the math, there's billions of people consuming the overly cheap, massively subsidized goods and services parent listed; there's only so many billionaires and they have only so man
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Thanks for the feedback! Given how easy the port is, I'm now inclined to fix a few things to make it properly playable, so I'll address it :). I agree, the moment I launched the ported version I remembered the core annoyance in pl
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Indeed. I always keep it installed on my devices, as it turns the phone into a poor man's tricorder, and that's handy sometimes. Most recently I used it to check light levels at home in different rooms, to determine where we need
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
I'd go further and say this is also the cybernetics equivalent of the religious teachings about humans, specifically the whole "judge by one's deeds, not by one's words" thing. So it's not like it's a nove
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Neither side can have it both ways, but there's way too much whining about people not paying. Want people to pay for your tools? Don't offer them for free . This is related to my usual point here, that if one offers something for

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